Omg yes they are really bringing the best science communities.

I saw the word “survive” and for a second I thought we were talking about Threads, the postapocalyptic movie that scarred a generation.

I need more coffee.

historical claims

That’s a bit misleading.

This article doesn’t mention the recent International Court of Justice arbitration, which seems a bit dishonest.

It’s true that Exxon Mobil is basically co-opting Guyana, but that doesn’t magically make Venezuela right.

As for this article, it’s a bit rich trying to paint Venezuela’s actions as anticolonial when Venezuela has literally been petitioning the ICJ to allow Britain a voice in the proceedings as Guyana’s former colonial masters.

And nevermind the fact that this whole thing has been going through international arbitration at the International Court of Justice.

Venezuela is the one ignoring international law on this.

Israeli sources responded by pointing out that successive governments had facilitated the transfer of money to Gaza for humanitarian reasons and that Netanyahu had acted decisively against Hamas after the October 7 attacks.

Nothing says “humanitarian” like cash in a suitcase. /s

I think that might be a good thing to do if you can; there are probably others in your situation who would love to have a book like this.

You could even do something like donate proceeds to a kidney charity or hospital.

Yeah, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber would not be smiling this hard in this picture if Cop28 actually did commit to phasing out fossil fuels in any meaningful way.

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Kalamata olives and raw tomato. I showed them to her just to let her know it wasn’t something she’d want, but she calmly ate them.

@mihnt and @landflucht that’s so weird, I came in here to talk about a cat I knew that would beg for the cut off stalks from raw broccoli!

Contested ownership of land is one of the driving forces behind violent oppression, torture, internment without due process, ethnic cleansing etc etc.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being opposed to this stuff.

Every single person alive today is on stolen land.

Plenty of our ancestors raped people but saying “every single person alive today has DNA from rape” is not a very good reason to support more rape now.

why do they need so many

For doing stuff like this: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends.

Morocco, it runs Africa’s last colony, with all the brutality that implies.

The US brokered a deal under the Trump administration where Morocco would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for the US “recognizing their sovereignty” over neighbouring Western Sahara, a mineral rich region.

Morocco Agrees to Normalize Ties With Israel in Exchange for U.S. Recognition of Western Sahara Sovereignty.

Background: Western Sahara: the six-decade struggle to liberate Africa’s last colony.

@Tippon if you are going the traditional publishing route, publishers don’t actually expect children’s book authors to provide the illustrations necessarily.

If you are self-publishing, I suggest you reach out to the kidney transplant community (support groups etc) to see if anyone can volunteer.

There might be someone else in your shoes who can draw and not write, who would love to be part of this project.

Well yeah they’re a colonial occupying power. Ukraine is just trying to resist one.

@Synthead what if 8 out of 10 of you want to vote for a third part candidate but you won’t in case they lose.

Honest voting might look like Candidate A = 2 votes, Candidate B = 6 votes, Candidate C = 13 votes

But status-quo voting gets you Candidate A =10 votes, candidat B = 11 votes, Candidate C = no votes

One of the golden rules in life is you should act like you want everyone to act.

If everyone voted for what they truly wanted and believed in, there would be no more political duopolies.

I know that’s easy for me to say because I have proportional representation, but I don’t think you should ever try to shame someone for voting with their conscience.

Even if Europe never offers any refund or repair, Africa would still be much better off if only the neocolonial West, Russia, and China would just stop interfering in African nations and exploiting them.

Unequal distribution of the world’s resources, exploitation, the Resource Curse (which leads to external input fuelling wars), climate crisis.